I was sitting in the living room when hubs yells out from upstairs, "You've GOT to be kidding me!" Curious, I went up there to see what he was talking about and he was watching the Olympics on the Oxygen channel (as if they're a hub for athletic events...whatever!). They were showing what we later learned was Individual Dressage. Pronounced 'druh-SAHZ,' it is defined as "the art or method of training a horse in obedience and in precision of movement." Looked like horse dancing to us. I swear they even used the word, "pirouette" in the commentating.
We sputtered a bit about how we couldn't believe this was an Olympic sport (I have a hard time defining as a sport anything where the bulk of the work is done by an animal or machine, but I digress...). We began naming off other "sports" that have found their place into the Olympic line-up - trampoline, synchronized diving, rhythmic gymnastics. Please, why not give us marathon hula hooping or shuffleboard? I did read a simple, informative article that did explain some of the how's and why's of event selection, but it does make me wonder who gets to make the final decision about what we get to see every 4 years. Where do we get to vote? Come on, give us some roller derby.
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I don't think the world in general is ready for roller derby. Especially the women's version. I did end up watching some women's Judo (a sport I used to do, but alas, no dojos teach it in Nashville) and it was BRUTAL. The women's 78k+ category...those gals looked like men. Husky men.
It blows me away that those are sports, but more of the major events from the X-Games aren't. I think it is particularly odd that snowboarding and snowcross made it to the winter games (which are lighter on sports and in need of ideas) before skateboarding and BMX events made it to the summer games. Weird.
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